Golf gloves

ABSTRACT

A pair of golf gloves is provided to facilitate the gripping of a golf club. One of the pair of gloves has a compartment for maintaining the middle, ring and little fingers of a first hand together when gripping a golf club and the other glove has a compartment for maintaining the index, middle and ring finger of the other hand together when gripping a golf club.

United States Patent- Kobylarz June 26, 1973 GOLF GLOVES [76] Inventor:Edward J. Kobylarz, 303 Maple Avenue, Wallington, NJ. 07057 [22] Filed:Jan. 24, 1972 [21] Appl. No.: 220,109

[52] US. Cl 2/161 A [51] Int. Cl A41d 19/00 [58] Field of Search 2/159,161 A, 163;

[56] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 3,255,461 6/1966 Bullock2/159 2,928,102 3/1960 Canausa 2/161 A 3,255,462 6/1966 Antonious...2/161 A 2,751,598 6/1956 Romeo 2/161 R Primary Examiner--Geo. V. LarkinAttorneyCaesar, Rivise, Bernstein & Cohen [57] ABSTRACT A pair of golfgloves is provided to facilitate the gripping of a golf club. One ofthepair of gloves has a compartment for maintaining the middle, ring andlittle fingers of a first hand together when gripping a golf club andthe other glove has a compartment for maintaining the index, middle andring finger of the other hand together when gripping a golf club. 7

6 Claims, 6 Drawing Figures GOLF GLOVES This invention relates generallyto golf gripping devices and more particularly to a pair of gloves forfacilitating the grip of a golf club.

Proper positioning of the fingers when gripping a golf club is oftendifficult for the beginner as well as more experienced golfers. Variousgloves for gripping a golf club have been provided for increasing thegrip of the golfer on the golf club as well as to protect the hand.However, the gloves are often bulky and do not facilitate themaintenance of the proper fingers together when gripping the golf club.

It is, therefore, an object of theinvention to overcome theaforementioned disadvantages of prior gripping devices.

Another object of the invention is to provide a new and improved pair ofgloves for facilitating the grip on a golf club.

Another object of the invention is to provide a pair of gloves forfacilitating the grip on a golf club having a first glove whichmaintains the middle, ring and little fingers together when the hand isused to grip a golf club.

Another object of the invention is to provide a new and improved pair ofgolf gloves for gripping a golf club wherein one of the golf glovesincludes a compartment for maintaining the index, middle and ringfingers together when the hand is gripping a golf club.

These and other objects of the invention are achieved by providing apair of golf gloves to facilitate gripping of a golf club. One of thegolf gloves has a compartment for maintaining the middle, ring andlittle fingers together when gripping a golf club and the other glovehas a compartment for maintaining the index, middle and ring fingers ofthe other hand together when gripping a golf club.

Other objects and many of the attendant advantages of this inventionwill be readily appreciated as the same become better understood byreference to the following detailed description when considered inconnection with the accompanying drawing wherein:

FIG. 1 is a top plan view of a first glove of a pair of gloves embodyingthe invention with the palm of the glove facing upwardly;

FIG. 2 is a top plan view of the glove shown in FIG. 1 with the back ofthe glove facing upwardly;

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the glove of FIGS. 1 and 2 being worn onthe left hand of a golfer;

FIG. 4 is a top plan view of the other glove of a pair of glovesembodying the invention with the back of the glove facing upwardly;

FIG. 5 is a top plan view of the glove shown in FIG. 4 with the palm ofthe glove facing upwardly; and

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the golf glove shown The left glove 20,however, in addition to having a compartment 22 for the palm, acompartment 24 for the thumb and a compartment 26 for the index finger,includes a single compartment 28 in which the middle finger, ring fingerand little finger are placed. Thus, when wearing glove 20, the leftthumb 30 is placed in compartment 24, the index finger 32 is placed incoinpartment 26 and the middle finger 34, the ring finger 36 and thelittle finger 38 of the left hand are placed in compartment 28. As bestseen in FIGS. 1 and 2, the compartment 28 includes an indentation at 40and 42 which help to maintain the comfort of the fingers 34,

-36 and 38 when the fingers are placed into compartment 28 of the glove.

Thus, as seen in FIG. 3, when the glove 20 is placed on the left hand 44of a golfer, the thumb, the index finger and the remaining three fingersrepresent three movable portions of the hand. The three fingers incompartment 28 are, thus, easily used together to grip the top portionof the golf club handle. The compartment 26 can then be spread from thecompartment 28 to enable an interlocking grip of the right hand whichwill be hereinafter seen in greater detail. The thumb in compartment 24, of course, grips the handle from the other side of the handle.

The right hand glove 50 is also of otherwise conventional construction.That is, glove 50 includes a first compartment 52 for the receipt ofthe'palm of the hand, a compartment 54 for thumb 56, compartment 58 forreceipt of the index finger 60, middle finger 62 and ring finger 64, anda third finger compartment 66 for the little finger 68.

As best seen in FIG. 6, the glove 50 is used on the right hand 70 of thegolfer. The compartments 54, 58 and 66 facilitate the use of the righthand in three sections. Thus, the little finger in compartment 66 isenabled to interlock with the compartment 26 of glove 20, the threemiddle fingers 60, 62 and 64 are maintained together by compartment 58and the thumb is discretely movable in compartment 54 to the other sideof the golf club handle.

It can, therefore, be seen that the pair of golf gloves embodying theinvention facilitates the gripping of a golf club handle. It should benoted that the pair of golf gloves shown is for a righthanded grip. Thatis, the grip normally used by a righthanded golfer. It should be noted,however, that the spirit of the invention can be accomplished for alefthanded golfer by reversing the disposition of compartments 28 and 58in the different gloves of the pair. That is, the righthand glove wouldhave a compartment similar to compartment 28 wherein the middle, ringand little fingers are maintained within one compartment and thelefthand glove would include a compartment like compartment 58 of therighthand glove which would hold the index, middle and ring fingers ofthe left hand together. It should be noted that a tightening band 72 ofconventional construction is provided on the rear of each of the gloveswhich includes a pair of straps which are tightened and loosened with asuitable buckle 74.

Without further elaboration, the foregoing will so fully illustrate myinvention that others may, by applying current or future knowledge,readily adapt the same for use under various conditions of service.

What is claimed as the invention is:

l. A pair of golf gloves to facilitate gripping of a golf club, one ofsaid gloves having a compartment for maintaining the middle, ring andlittle fingers of a first hand together when gripping a golf club andthe other glove having a compartment for maintaining the index, middleand ring fingers of the other hand together when gripping a golf club.

2. The pair of golf gloves of claim 1 wherein said one glove is for useon the left hand of a golfer.

3. The pair of golf gloves of claim 1 wherein said other glove is foruse on the right hand of a golfer.

4. The pair of golf gloves of claim 1 wherein said one glove includes aseparate compartment for the index little finger in the other glove.

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1. A pair of golf gloves to facilitate gripping of a golf club, one ofsaid gloves having a compartment for maintaining the middle, ring andlittle fingers of a first hand together when gripping a golf club andthe other glove having a compartment for maintaining the index, middleand ring fingers of the other hand together when gripping a golf club.2. The pair of golf gloves of claim 1 wherein said one glove is for useon the left hand of a golfer.
 3. The pair of golf gloves of claim 1wherein said other glove is for use on the right hand of a golfer. 4.The pair of golf gloves of claim 1 wherein said one glove includes aseparate compartment for the Index finger.
 5. The pair of golf gloves ofclaim 4 wherein said other glove includes a separate compartment for thelittle finger.
 6. The pair of golf gloves of claim 5 wherein saidseparate compartments in said one and said other gloves enable discretemovement of said compartments for interlocking of the index finger insaid one glove with the little finger in the other glove.